Employer · California

49421 - La Metro Zone

Torrance, CA · ~238 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

49421 - La Metro Zone runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

49421 - La Metro Zone: 2.8 TCR = 125% of industry BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

49421 - La Metro Zone safety composite

49421 - La Metro Zone scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

49421 - La Metro Zone: 1.1 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2018

49421 - La Metro Zone's TCR rose 3.3 from 1.1 in 2017 to 4.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Torrance, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 125% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #37/93
  • PHOTO 49491C - VISTA SALES
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~238 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 49491C - VISTA SALES (0.0 TCR gap)

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49421 - La Metro Zone in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 49421 - La Metro Zone averages 2.8 TCR (125% of the industry BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

49421 - La Metro Zone TCR series: 2017=1.1 · 2018=4.4 · BLS 2.2

Where 49421 - La Metro Zone falls in its industry

773 industry establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 93 industry employers in California.

49421 - La Metro Zone (238 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate 49421 - La Metro Zone
49421 - La Metro Zone (238 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

49421 - La Metro Zone has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2018 4.4 4.0 12 0 0
2017 1.1 0.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · CA · Torrance

773 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Torrance, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 49491C - VISTA SALES 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASTON EmpWorkCtrCd 30001482 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 49221B - NORTH BAY ZONE 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 42131B - BANGOR BIN 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Panoche Creek Packing 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guerrero Labor Contractor 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enphase Energy Fremont, CA 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Division #9 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 4,144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Torrance Memorial Medical Center 3,808 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles 3,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 494 2,621 FTE
NAT-TCR 0765 - Roseburg, or 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR N and R of Tipton LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR SG002 - Sage Ft. Collins 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Montvale 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kirlin Carolinas 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ypsilanti (Miyps) 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE JFSNA at ADM Decatur 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE HPF 238 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.